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Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees

Fernando Wario 1 † , Benjamin Wild 1 † , Margaret J. Couvillon 2 , Raúl Rojas 1 and Tim Landgraf 1* 1 FB Mathematik und Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2 Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Edited by: Peter Schausberger, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria Reviewed by: Shawn M. Wilder, Oklahoma State University, USA Stephan Wolf, Queen Mary University London, UK *Correspondence: Tim Landgraf, FB Mathematik und Informatik, Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany tim.landgraf@fu-berlin.de † These authors have contributed equally to this work. The honeybee waggle dance communication system is an intriguing example of abstract animal communication and has been investigated thoroughly throughout the last seven decades.